The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles

 

I loved The Garden of the Finzi-Continis so I decided to read another one of his books. This is about the friendship between a gay doctor and an Italian Jewish student. When the doctor's secret gets unraveled, he loses his clients, and he loses it committing suicide. While the book tackles homosexuality it also goes into the anti-Semitic behavior of the time. So, both characters are ostracized. At the end the only people really having sympathy with the doctor's death are his father and the student.